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To: Solon who wrote (38947)	7/14/2013 9:29:53 AM
From: The Barracuda™	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 69300

I'd agree mostly with your comment but I would change the order of he harms society--which means he harms people. To he harms people, therefore society is harmed. Yes that is his defense. I have a relative who is a mucky muck in the catholic church. A catholic intellectual. And when pressed, this catholic intellectual justifies his belief in god with, "Well you got to believe in something." He argues basically that his senses (perception of reality) are invalid but he must find a way to live on this earth. So he chooses supernatural divination as a means to learn truth and therefore survive. And How does he know that this received truth is true? From his SENSES! His belief is that reality isn't real . ( how would one know that?)

To: Solon who wrote (38947)	7/14/2013 10:31:09 PM
From: 2MAR$	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 69300

It was decidely immoral (and illegal) for cremating bodies in England right up to 1900. Just reading this from the father of Cultural Evolution & Archaeology, Augustus Pitt Rivers who advocated the practice & himself chose this method of burial treatment. en.wikipedia.org Apparently it was terrifying for Christians right up to the 18th century to think the cremated body was beyond this all-powerful god to reassemble, their poor dusty ashes, and resurrect them physically . Yet think of all the wood wasted in casket building plus the potash & vital minerals that could be returned to the fields & forests? One could bury one's father or mother's ashes under the old apple tree, oak or better still a majestic long living redwood and have the most beautiful gravesite in the world to visit, plus feed the tree. ( plant one even better with the ashes) Cremation was punishable by death in the time of Charlemagne, what we deem immorality or morality goes thru many many changes over time? en.wikipedia.org